Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford | Patient Advocacy

Inflammatory bowel disease, ostomy, chronic pain, PTSD, and mental wellbeing.

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Category: Health articles

22nd Nov 201424th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Ostomy reversal surgery – in pictures

5th Nov 201424th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

An open letter to my fellow IBD sufferers

2nd Nov 201411th Apr 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

How IBD is like an unwanted house guest

22nd Oct 201424th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

A book to remember

21st Oct 201424th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Lockdown for mental health clarity

9th Sep 201424th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

To reverse or not to reverse…

8th Sep 201424th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Why I'm grateful for my IBD diagnosis

8th Sep 201424th Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

The hospital diary – resection and ileostomy

17th Apr 201431st Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

The emotional effects of IBD

20th Mar 201431st Mar 2023 Sahara Fleetwood-Beresford

Where my awareness raising / fundraising began…

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Another swap on the mission to reduce microplastics in our home/body! 🔪 Hoping the algorithm will help me reach my people!🤞 I used to have 6K+ connections on Insta, until I was hacked! I'd love to be able to reconnect! 💕 A quick heads-up to anyone who ever buys or plans on buying us presents… 🎁🫣 I’ve spent the last few weeks completely overhauling my home to clear out microplastics. I wrote about how reducing microplastics can benefit people with #IBD and other #ChronicIllness 🔗 https://advocatinghealth.com/2026/09/08/reducing-microplastics-to-benefit-ibd/ First, apologies for the recent irresponsible post! Intestinal blockage aftermath... I’ve switched to an anti-inflammatory Mediterranean diet recently, but adapting it to suit my specific restrictions (intestinal strictures from surgeries) has been a lot to get my head around! 😵‍💫 Life has been a bit chaotic lately! Between the additional tasks of researching and publishing new articles for IBD Science, doing separate dog walks every morning to work on individual behavioural issues (Loki is a barker and Aragorn is a puller!), and a vet visit for Lady’s cheek infection, my energy has been stretched! https://www.instagram.com/p/Db7xtK1sGss/ When living with a #ChronicIllness, we often talk about getting through the flare, recovering from surgery, or managing the daily symptoms. But what happens after the storm clears? It's strange that it's completely normal to me to start a Saturday with movement that helps manage my pain, followed by a catch up with people I only know because of our shared health conditions, whilst organising my meds for the week. Afterwards, I organised and cut my latest #ostomy supply delivery. Only then did I realise that for a "normal healthy person", this is not a standard day 😂 This is the day of a person who's spent so many years adapting to their chronic conditions, that this is MY normal 💜 I'll give you two ✌️ guesses where this peppermint oil ended up after I'd dropped a few drops 💧 in my #ostomy bag whilst on the toilet 🚽...
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